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Discover Albania

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About

Discover Albania Club was founded on 14 March 2007. Initially as a group of young people

with the desire to explore Albania and at the same time get closer to nature. The first trips

were in the villages near Tirana and then camp sites at Jale beach in south Albania.

Outdoor and adventure activities expanded, on hiking and trekking on Albanian summits.

More than 38,000 thousand tourists have traveled with us. Throughout these years we

created a strong, innovative and comprehensive structure for trips to the albanian

speaking areas, being recognized as the leading travel tour company created by albanians

for Albania.

Three Islands | Ksamil, Sarande

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Mission

Discover Albania only mission is to discover Albania by increasing the interest towards

nature. What we do is guarantee easier access to places that are difficult to reach, as well

as education towards respect and coexistence with nature. Besides aiming to highlight

Albanian values and traditions and to promote local tourism.

Our goal is to make every visitor feel at home while traveling with us, feel free to act and

explore just as wolud do in his own country. We are motivated to meet the expectations of

the participants, thus turning the journey into a common adventure, and therefore our

company motto is "Discovering Together".

Speedboat rippling | Dhermi, Vlore


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Vision

Our focus is that tourists visiting Albania not only see it as nature, but create new

emotions, look beyond the mountains, understand why we have these habits and

tradition, why we think and do so.

For us it is very important to maintain a constant tourism, it is important to protect the

community and respect their values, so we take care to make a moderate distribution and

to promote the most impacting destinations. We believe that a destination that has more

tourists than locals is no longer a tourist destination, is a commercial place where

everything else is left to shoot a picture.

Albania is so beautiful that it can not be just an object to be photographed, Albania must

live and enjoy it, tourists should feel the emotion and love that is in this country.

Travelling moments| Valbone, Tropoje


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Why Discover Albania

By staying strict on our mission and vision, consolidated by the years of experience that

has come naturally and gradually made us have the best team in this industry.

To achieve this we have focused on three key points of our service: meeting customer

satisfaction, motivating staff and preparing the most creative tourists.

Our strong point is devotion and information, we have a staff and motivated co-workers to

offer fantastic journeys. More than 30 people give their best to realize what every tourist

wants. Our partners are serious and the best in the area in which we operate. Our guides

are our best professional, polite, welcoming and all-smiling image.

Bovilla Lake| Qafshtame, Kruje


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Choose a tour operator you trust. Nowadays, time is really gold, following the decision to

make a trip, there are many issues behind, such as work permits, staying away from

different decision-making that requires your opinion, being far from people you care about,

the monetary value and many more. All of this will become invisible only if travel really has

been a success.

Save time and effort. As mentioned above time is a luxury. Scheduling a trip includes

reservations, itinerary, map to find paths, time and effort, and you may not be able to visit

all the places you want.

Relax and rest. Vacations would not be such if you would always have to look after

logistics. An inadequate organization would ruin everything. We assure you that our care

is up to the details. So you do not have to worry about anything, just relax and enjoy the

holidays.

Our staff is sociable and well informed. Tour guides are our face and those who present us

in a dignified manner. Possessors of the qualities necessary to make a beautiful journey,

accommodating to your every need, positive in any situation. Our tour guides are licensed

and equipped with the first aid certificate to ensure your safety.

Traveling alone will not be boring. Often, it happens that you can not find a friend who has

the same desire and opportunity to travel to new places, this will not be a problem if you

travel with us. Group travel and the atmosphere created make it easier to socialize and get

acquainted with new people.

Activities and excursions. We arrange different trips depending on physical preparation,

the fact that you did not go to the mountain should not prevent you from traveling with

us, we will help you prepare yourself. From us you will have the support for your first

hiking experience.

Legitimacy. Discover Albania is a tour operator licensed by the national authorities and a

member of ATA (Albanian Tourism Association).


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Company profile

Company name

Brand name

Founded

NIPT

Licence Number

Main Awards

Main Tourism Fairs:

Albania Social Club

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14 March 2007

L52401017I

LN-4469-02-2018

Best Destination 2014, “Travel Magazine”




Best guide of the Year 2016

Most reviewed company of the Year 2017

1-International Tourism Fair Berlin

2-Kosovo International Fair

3-Albania International Fair

4-Utrecht Adventure International Fair


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Company profile

Member:

Events

Organizer

Partner

Participant

Geographic coverage

Affiliates / Partners

Adress

Mob

Email

Web

Facebook

Instagram

Youtube

National Tourism Agency

Slow Food Association Albania

Eco-Tourism Association

Nature Protection Agency

#Di1Vend (www.di1vend.com)

South Outdoor Festival (South.al)

Clean Albania for one Day

Kala (kala.al)

Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia

Kosovo, Macedonia, Switzerland, Hungary,

Portugal

Myslym Shyri Str. P.24 s1/4, Tirana, Albania

+355694040333

[email protected]

discoveralbania.al

Klubi Discover Albania

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Services

1.Tours

More than forty travel categories, divided by categories of: Entertainment;

Adventure; Emotions ect. Other disciplines are such as: Hiking; Trekking;

Biking.

When designing a tour, we make sure that this tour has the best possible

combination of time, since in Albania although the distances are close, the

infrastructure takes more time than it needs.

Landscape, Thethi Church| Theth, Shkoder


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2. Team Building

Another of our discipline where we are highly focused is teambuilding. We arrange trips

with teambuilding activities involving 70% of companies that organize such events with

their staffs. In this discipline we have more than 5 years that we have entered and we

currently hold the lead.

3. PR and consultancy in the tourism industry.

Thanks to the long experience in the market and the great love we have for our beautiful

Albania in these years we have also focused on another dimension such as the creation of

events and cooperation with other partners for the promotion of Albania.

Porto Palermo Castle| Porto Palermo, Himare


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Reviews and surveys

As mentioned above in our focus has been satisfaction of our customers, thanks to this we

have managed to have the highest rating with 4.8 out of 5 in 1376 reviews that our clients

have made.

Valbona River| Valbone, Tropoje

93%

4% 2%

5 Stars

4 Stars

3 Stars

2 Stars

1 Star

Our customers evaluate us every day our

performance, these results are 84% from our

facebook page, 9% from Google, 5% from Trip

Adviser and from the web and other

communication channels.


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In addition to the review we have also asked questions about our performance. In the last

5 years, the survey results, with more than 1200 participants surveyed, are as follows:

3.6%

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Public Relation

The way we have chosen to present to the public is through online platforms: Website;

Instagram; Youtube channel; and a special attention gets Facebook.

All our programs and activities are published in these networks, each of which has an

agenda to be followed. Our publications are not only related to the products we sell, but

also to educating and informing the public about nature, environment.

Komani Lake| Koman


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Environment

Being in direct and constant interaction with the environment, our impact is very visible.

For this reason, we have policies that contribute to having a cleaner environment.

For this reason we have drafted the "Environmental Care Code" which includes 6 points:

Do not contaminate rivers or water springs. Riverbanks or water springs are main access

for many people and villages.

Campfires. The consequences of burning fires in a country with many forests are great,

always be careful to quench it after leaving.

Take care of your residues. Never leave non-organic plants until you find a designated

place for residues.

Camping. After a few days' camping, the residues are numerous, burning is not a solution,

plastics should never be burned after producing harmful gases.

Protect plants and animals. In many areas of Albania grow plants or animals that are in

danger of exctinction. Always make sure that you do not harm their habitat.

Consider the others travelling behind you. You are not the only visitor, there are many

others, make sure you do not damage paths or block them at any way.

Discover Albania has also been an active part of environmental protection initiatives such

as cleaning Cape of Rodon, Qafshtama National Park, and initiatives to plant a tree for

every tourist who visited Lura with Discover Albania.


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Client portfolio

During this experience we have been lucky to have a portfolio of prestigious clients,

enabling us to learn more about the quality of service in this industry every time.


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Special programs and events

#DiNjëVënd

#Dinjëvend is an activity that took place in summer of 2017 in Cape of Rodon where about

2000 young participated in the development of sports and adventure activities and about

500 of them spent the night on the camping prepared and organized on the beach.

It was a great outdoor celebration, lasting two days, exactly on 25 and 26 August, other

companies were invited to practice their sport activities in nature.

It is already an initiative that we will continue every year to promote unknown areas of

Albania.

Cape of Rodon| Durres


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#Kala Event

Kala is a tourist event and festival which is organized in south of Albania by "Mainstage

Travel". It is a activity based on music, adventure and the culinary of the Dhërmi area.

Participants will be around 2000-2500 tourists from Britain and Western European

countries. This activity takes place from 20-27 June 2018.

The event will be organized every year starting in 2018 in the Dhermi area, aiming south of

Albania promotion at tourist markets of Western Europe.

Landscape| Dhermi, Vlore


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Media

Promoting Albania has been a mission and ongoing work in which different TV shows

showed interes and invited us to know more: “Opinion – TV Klan”; “Pasdite ne Top

Channel”; “Pasdite me Rudinën”; “Wake up”; “Mireemëngjes Shqipëri”; “Radio Travel”,

“UTV news”.

Travel Magazine dedicated its cover to pictures, photos and events taken throughout

Albania by Discover Albania Club

Grama Bay| Karaburun, Vlore


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Partners

During all these years we have been relying on our partners to succeed in this story.

Thanks to them our customers are even more satisfied with our travels.


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Financial Indicators

Discover Albania has a staff of 30 people who work full time and part time contributing

every day to the growth of company. We are very proud of these results, and at the same

time we have designed a 5 year plan by 2022 to triple these indicators as we are now

increasingly focusing on international marketing with partners from different countries.

Year Revenues (in Euro) Staff Tourist

2007

29850 4 3,200 2008

2009

2010 237,800 7 2,279

2011 285,360 7 2,848

2012 356,700 7 2,988

2013 356,700 10 3,190

2014 428,040 15 4,329

2015 475,600 15 4,557

2016 713,400 20 5,396

2017 1,141,440 28 7,114

* Tourists from Kosovo are counted as local tourists.

Percentage of our sustomers by category

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2007-2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Tours (Foreign) Weekend Daily


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Milestones

Founded Founded on 14 mars 2007, first trip to Dajti mountain;

Jan 2007 Camp sites south Albania;

Sep 2007 Trips to Theth, Shkoder, north Albania;

Sep 2008 14 day tour grand tour of Albania, US tourists;

2010 Partnership in Kosovo;

May 2010 Discover Albania photo as cover photo of Travel Magazine for summer

2010;

Feb 2012 Representative office in Macedonian town of Tetovo named Club Discover

Albania represented by TDK Macedonia;

Dec 2012 Discover Albania Club Facebook page reached 120,000 Followers, and on

this date was opened a new website, discoveralbania.al;

April 2013 “Discover Albania – Western Balkan Love” – video promotion of Albania;

March 2014 International Tourism Fair – Berlin;

May 2014 First tour for albanians to visit Albania;

Oct 2014 Best Destinations and tours Travel Magazine;

June 2015 International market.


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Discover Albania Staff

We have the pleasure to work with fantastic people who give their best to make every journey

beautiful. We believe that the value of the company is in their hands, and they are exactly

those who brought the company to this stage.

Ismail J.Hoxha – C.E.O Founder/Tour Guide

Founded the company in 2007 and has been actively involved ever

since, dealing with company’s development and strategic planning.

Jetnor Selimaj – Tour Coordinator/Tour Guide

Jetnor joined "Discover Albania" 5 years ago. As much time as it stays

in the office by coordinating tours as much wants spending time doing

what he really loves, staying in nature and hike throughout Albania.

Marjana Çerekja – Tour Designer/Tour Guide

After the details of each tour and trip is Marjana, focusing on

customers' satisfaction and fulfilling their expectations.


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Alban Jovani – PR Manager/Tour Guide

When it comes to our PR and Marketing we have our man. Alban is very

connected with the company, and hi is the only one that can transmit

our philosophy to our customers. He has been working with Discover

Albania Club since 2012.

Albiona Muçoimaj – Tour Lider/Tour Guide

For toughest situations we have our toughest girl, Albiona.

Egerin Braçe – Head of Bike Tour Unit/Tour Guide

Everywhere in Tirana you can find Egerin and his Bike. He is always

looking for nice trails for his bikers. In every Bike tour that we have, he is

on the front, giving his best for a fantastic adventure.

Fatjon Kapllanaj – Head of Creative & Design Unit

Fatjon is the one who can show to the people the experience of traveling

with us, videos, photos, fantastic landscapes are made by him,

everywhere in Albania.

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